1 En Mirjam en A„ron het teen Moses gespreek vanweë die Kusitiese vrou wat hy geneem het; want hy het 'n Kusitiese vrou geneem.
2 En hulle het gesê: Het die HERE dan maar alleen met Moses gespreek? Het Hy nie ook met ons gespreek nie? En die HERE het dit gehoor.
3 Maar die man Moses was baie sagmoedig, meer as al die mense op die aardbodem.
4 Toe het die HERE dadelik met Moses en A„ron en Mirjam gespreek: Julle drie, kom uit na die tent van samekoms! En hulle drie het uitgekom.
5 En die HERE het in 'n wolkkolom neergedaal en by die ingang van die tent gaan staan. Daarna het Hy A„ron en Mirjam geroep, en hulle twee het uitgekom.
6 Toe sê Hy: Hoor tog my woorde. As julle profeet van die HERE is, sal Ek deur 'n gesig My aan hom bekend maak, deur 'n droom sal Ek met hom spreek.
7 So is dit nie met my kneg Moses nie: in my hele huis is hy getrou.
8 Mond tot mond spreek Ek met hom, en deur aanskouing en nie deur duister woorde nie; en hy sien die verskyning van die HERE. Waarom het julle dan nie gevrees om teen my kneg, teen Moses, te spreek nie?
9 En die toorn van die HERE het teen hulle ontvlam, en Hy het weggegaan.
10 En toe die wolk van die tent af weggetrek het, kyk, toe was Mirjam melaats, soos sneeu. En A„ron het Mirjam aangekyk en -- sy was melaats!
11 Daarop sê A„ron vir Moses: Ag, my heer, lê tog nie op ons die sonde wat ons in ons dwaasheid begaan het nie.
12 Laat sy tog nie wees soos 'n dooie van wie se vleis, as hy uit sy moeder se skoot uitgaan, die helfte verteer is nie.
13 En Moses het die HERE aangeroep en gesê: o God, maak haar tog gesond!
14 Toe sê die HERE vir Moses: As haar vader net maar in haar gesig gespuug het, sou sy nie sewe dae lank beskaamd wees nie? Laat sy sewe dae lank buitekant die laer opgesluit wees, en daarna mag sy opgeneem word.
15 En hulle het Mirjam sewe dae lank buitekant die laer opgesluit; en die volk het nie weggetrek voordat Mirjam opgeneem was nie.
16 Maar daarna het die volk van H serot af weggetrek en in die woestyn Paran laer opgeslaan.
1 Now Miriam and Aaron said evil against Moses, because of the Cushite woman to whom he was married, for he had taken a Cushite woman as his wife.
2 And they said, Have the words of the Lord been given to Moses only? have they not come to us? And the Lord took note of it.
3 Now the man Moses was more gentle than any other man on earth.
4 And suddenly the Lord said to Moses and Aaron and Miriam, Come out, you three, to the Tent of meeting. And the three of them went out.
5 And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud, taking his place at the door of the Tent, and made Aaron and Miriam come before him.
6 And he said, Now give ear to my words: if there is a prophet among you I will give him knowledge of myself in a vision and will let my words come to him in a dream.
7 My servant Moses is not so; he is true to me in all my house:
8 With him I will have talk mouth to mouth, openly and not in dark sayings; and with his eyes he will see the form of the Lord: why then had you no fear of saying evil against my servant Moses?
9 And burning with wrath against them, the Lord went away.
10 And the cloud was moved from over the Tent; and straight away Miriam became a leper, as white as snow: and Aaron, looking at Miriam, saw that she was a leper.
11 Then Aaron said to Moses, O my lord, let not our sin be on our heads, for we have done foolishly and are sinners.
12 Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half wasted when he comes out from the body of his mother.
13 And Moses, crying to the Lord, said, Let my prayer come before you, O God, and make her well.
14 And the Lord said to Moses, If her father had put a mark of shame on her, would she not be shamed for seven days? Let her be shut up outside the tent-circle for seven days, and after that she may come in again.
15 So Miriam was shut up outside the tent-circle for seven days: and the people did not go forward on their journey till Miriam had come in again.
16 After that, the people went on from Hazeroth and put up their tents in the waste land of Paran.